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To test the effect of salt priming on the photosynthetic electron transport in wheat under low temperature, the germinating seeds of a winter wheat cv. Jimai44 were primed with varying concentrations of NaCl solutions (0, 10, 30, and 50 mM NaCl, indicated by S0, S10, S30, and S50, respectively) for 6 d, and after 11 d of recovery, the seedlings were subsequently exposed to 24-h low-temperature stress (2 \u00b0C). Under low temperature, the S30 plants possessed the highest absorption flux per reaction center and higher density of reaction center per cross-section among the treatments. In addition, S30 plants had higher trapped energy flux for reducing QA and fraction of QA-reducing reaction centers and non-QB reducing center than the non-primed plants under low temperature, indicating that S30 plants could maintain the energy balance of photosystems and a relatively higher maximum quantum efficiency of photosystem II under low temperature. In addition, the low temperature-induced MDA accumulation and cell death were alleviated by salt priming in S30 plants. 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